- Date of Birth
- January 4
About tootsibelle
- Sleeved or not sleeved:
- I have had a gastric sleeve.
- Location:
- US
- Interests:
- writing, photography, painting
- Name:
- Sheri
- Gastric Sleeve Surgeon:
- Dr. Almanza
- Surgery date:
- 2013-07-23
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- Most Recent Message
- 05-09-2014 11:52 AM
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- 05-29-2014 10:58 PM
- Join Date
- 08-19-2012
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tootsibelle on 05-09-2014 at 10:41 AM
I have lost more than 270 pounds since I began this journey. August 16, 2012 my doctor weighed me in at 540 pounds. I got my surgery just under a year later and had lost 85 pounds according to the scale at Dr. Almanza's office on my way into the operating room. I have been through a lot for the past 8 months (since surgery) and also the last 17 years that got me to that huge, life-killing place.
I have to do everything possible to make sure I don't get back to that ugly, destructive
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tootsibelle on 03-13-2014 at 10:26 PM
All I'm gonna say is... after 17 years of obesity and being locked up under a huge amount of weight and then released... that first kiss releases endorphin and dopa mine in doses that are surprisingly powerful. Beware!
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tootsibelle on 02-08-2014 at 11:13 PM
Losing weight and getting a grip on my eating has opened my life in many ways. I was super morbidly obese, a title I hated the sound of, let alone living it. On August 16, 2012 my doctor weighed me in at 540 pounds. I could barely move. It was only months to bedridden. 'Nuff adat...
Today I am 230 pounds lighter. That's a lot lighter, let me tell ya. Really makes for some great days. Now I can go places and do things that wasn't possible before. I don't have to miss out on love or
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tootsibelle on 01-24-2014 at 07:57 PM
Six months, and I've lost more than 130 pounds.I still have more than that yet to go. Feeling great, everything's better. I'm participating again. Love it.
Before surgery I was in a power chair because I was too heavy to carry myself from place to place. My left knee had it. In losing weight, at around the 3rd month, I was able to walk with a cane, and I put the buggy out to pasture. Oh how I hated that thing. It put holes in my walls, it almost pulled my arm off when it got caught
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tootsibelle on 12-18-2013 at 10:35 PM
I'm out nearly 5 months. I had more weight to lose than most people. I've lost 116 pounds, but I've got about 190 more to go, so I'm just getting going. I have had a wonderful ride so far. It hasn't been too difficult, and that constant nagging of my brain is gone. I feel like I'm coming up from the abyss in many ways and feeling some new sparks of life.
I've been calm up until now, allowing for the new stomach, being thankful every day that I don't have to fight, having confidence
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